Explain it to me like I'm 5: Server Capacity

[Greed]

Hey all, been in the Q for about two hours now when the player count was roughly at 250k. I'm still in the Q but somehow the player count is at 320k.

[Errantem]

It's simply because they increased capacity

It's taking so long to increase it more because while most games that force 'online only', the devs failed massively to design their servers to any modern standard so that they were elastic and quick to scale

[Greed]

Or are there 70k players in the queue? lol

[Derrame]

the developers publisher, whoever in charge, dont want to buy a bigger server

[Plinto]

the PC server cap is 225k right now, so you're in the swamp with a hundred thousand other people who cant play, you're all just sitting at the menu endlessly cycling attempts to join

[ADogAndAMan!]

I was queuing for about 20 minutes just now and finally got in.
Then my game crashed as soon as I tried to match make for a game.
: D

[Sofia]

online players just means players who have the game open

this includes people in the main menu who aren't yet connected

[Jynova]

There is no real queue, it's just as a request is called up and you get lucky enough to get in. I had a few I got in after a few attempts, other times my computer sat on the menus for a few hours while I did other things. It's random.